Why Read the Classics? (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Italo Calvino (Author), Martin McLaughlin (Primary Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $11.54

  Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and passionate criticism.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $6.60

  In this collection of thirty-six essays, Calvino explores several original definitions of what makes a Classic, and surveys works that range in time from antiquity and early modern Europe, to the masters of the nineteenth-century novel and his early American mentors, through to his contemporaries.